How to Finish Bad Habits

Bad habits will continue repeating every day ...
... Unless you consciously decide to stop and make a plan to replace them with healthier habits.
Imagine you decide to stop eating sweets, but you're not sure what you do to get it.
Surely you'll never get leave because your habit works unconsciously and even consciously try to stop it, when your guard is starting again.

What are Habits

Habits are a mechanism that allows you to free the mind conscious of having to think about all the routine activities that you perform.
Are patterns of behavior that you've taken because I have worked in the past and they are still using them because you are comfortable.
But what if you realize that the habits that were acceptable in the past are no longer?
Suppose a child ate chocolate chip cookies for a snack and is one of the habits that you have retained an adult.
Your habit of eating these things means that now you are gaining excess weight and your body needs a change.
Habits are hard to change because they have been carved in your mind by repeating over and over again in the same process over time.

As is Form A Bad Habit

Bad habits start by accident. For example, one day that you were bored and decided to put zapping on TV and as I was a rewarding experience, decided to re-look the next day.
Now it's been a few years and spend some time each day watching TV while you realize it's a waste of time. Why?

Habits are developed in 3 parts:

1. Trigger
It is the stimulus that causes your habit. If for example, you usually bite your nails in stressful situations, the trigger is your emotional reaction to stress.
Two. Response
The answer is the reaction it provokes in you encouragement, thoughts and actions that make you carry the habit itself. Following the example, this is the moment you put your finger in your mouth for you to bite your nails.
Three. Reward
The reward is the pleasure and satisfaction that will produce immediate reply. The reward of biting your nails is decreasing your anxiety.
Here is the trap of bad habits: the pleasurable effect of reward is short and the next time you meet with the initial stimulus is easy to want to repeat the process.

How to eliminate a bad habit

The first step to change a habit is to be aware that you have this habit, well recognize the process you follow from the trigger to the reward.
Finally a habit you have to eliminate any of the 3 parts that make it up:
1. Remove the trigger
If you remove the initial stimulus habit disappears. For example, if you want to quit eating chocolate, pastries and sweets just snap on your home all the goodies you have. If not, you can not eat and your bad habits are replaced over time by healthier habits.
Two. Delete the reply
Remove the answer involves changing your reaction to the stimulus.
An effective way to change your response is to promise someone that you will not repeat more your current behavior. Following the example above, you can promise your partner, friends or colleagues who do not eat sweets or junk food. Your response will change because instead of thinking about eating think of the disappointment of the people around you to see you eat sweets. To make it even more interesting you can promise that every time they see you eating junk food will you pay X amount or X thing in return.
Another alternative is to remind the benefits of your habit not to repeat the negative consequences continue the habit every time you meet with encouragement. Every time you see a candy like recalls will lose weight and gain health if they will not eat and get fat and your health as worse if you eat.
Three. Remove the reward
To remove the reward you must prevent your habits will prove enjoyable. For example you can: Eat dark chocolate, put salt on the cookies for that you find unpleasant or drink beer without alcohol.

Ideas You Can Apply

1. Modify your habits one at a time
If you focus on change your habits one by one have many more chances to succeed if you try to change them all at once. Concentrate your effort.
Two. Replace your bad habits with better habits
A habit exists because it satisfies a need. If you delete a current habit you must be prepared to replace it with another habit. For example, if you smoke because you like having something in your mouth, you can try to chew gum, or eat licorice sticks or lollipops.
Three. Plan and modify your plan
It is essential that you have a written plan on what steps you will take to change your habit. A plan allows you to specify exactly what steps you will take to avoid your old habits and start new. Plan, set your plan in motion and modifies everything that you are not working well.
April. Do not give up
The older your habits are, the harder it will be to change. It is important that if you fail and come back to your old habits do not stop trying. It is normal that your habits are hard to break. Do not give up! If today you do not you could get, you have another chance tomorrow to try.